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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Except that Kane is not that good. There is more that the Flames can and should be doing to shut him down.
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Not really. He has had a few big games against us but he isn’t even a top 5 player on his own team. I don’t mean leave him wide open in front of the net but he isn’t the straw that stirs their offensive drink by any means.
Any extra defensive effort you commit to Kane means less commitment to other Sharks players on the ice (Burns, Hertl, whoever etc). Shadowing a player comes at a pretty big cost which is why it only gets done in the rarest of scenarios anymore.